Re: ExclusiveLock and Python

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Michael A(dot) Schulte" <michael(dot)schulte(at)sun(dot)com>
Cc: Gaetano Mendola <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: ExclusiveLock and Python
Date: 2003-02-28 14:05:56
Message-ID: 4197.1046441156@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Michael A. Schulte" <michael(dot)schulte(at)sun(dot)com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Offhand I think this is only used to implement waits associated with
>> SELECT FOR UPDATE row locking --- all other locks are on tables or
>> table-like objects.

> What about two processes updating the same row?

Right, that case is also a row lock.

> I thougth
> PostGres locks the row in this case and this would also
> be reflected as an entry in pg_locks with mode
> ExclusiveLock.

There's no pg_locks entry for a row lock.

regards, tom lane

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